"You Tell Me Your Dream (I'll Tell You Mine)," 1899 American nostalgic waltz, piano/vocal

Nostalgic American waltz of the late 1890s! "You Tell Me Your Dream" is a bittersweet love song, with music by Charles N. Daniels and lyric by Seymour Rice and Albert H. Brown. Popular love songs of the late 1800s were typically waltzes, and the verses tell a story, while the chorus is the same each time with a lyric of broad appeal (so audiences would remember the chorus!).
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"After the Ball" and "Bird in a Gilded Cage" are similar classics. I might eventually record them as well! The song enjoyed enduring popularity decades after its original publication, with recordings by the Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Connie Francis.
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Lyric:
Two little children one morning,
After their breakfast was o’er
Were laughing and playing together,
Alone on the dining room floor
The girl of a dream had been talking
But refused with a toss of her head
To tell it all to her playmate,
Until he coaxingly said
You had a dream, well, I had one, too
I know mine’s best ’cause it was of you
Come sweetheart tell me, now is the time
You tell me your dream, I’ll tell you mine
Tom said, “I dreamed you had promised
that some day we should be wed,”
“Why, that’s just exactly like my dream,”
Mary then blushingly said
Time they say brings many changes
But their love no change ever knew
And so they were happily married
The dream of their childhood came true
You had a dream, well, I had one, too
I know mine’s best ’cause it was of you
Come sweetheart tell me, now is the time
You tell me your dream, I’ll tell you mine
Sadness has entered the household
Where happiness once reigned supreme
The sunshine of life now has vanished
Grief has dispelled their bright dream
For Mary his kind loving helpmate
Had yesterday passed away
And in sorrow Tom thinks of the morning
When in childhood to her he did say
You had a dream, well, I had one, too
I know mine’s best ’cause it was of you
Come sweetheart tell me, now is the time
You tell me your dream, I’ll tell you mine